Child molester who killed a two-year-old found dead in his Manitoba prison cell: Murder suspected

STONY MOUNTAIN, Man. — A homicide investigation is underway after the death of a convicted child killer at a federal prison near Winnipeg.

The Correctional Service of Canada says Duane Edward Taylor, who was 53, was found unresponsive in his cell at the medium-security Stony Mountain Institution on Saturday.

The CSC says Taylor had been serving an indeterminate sentence for first-degree murder since September, 1982. Taylor was convicted of killing two-year-old April Marie Morrison in 1981, the Kingston Whig-Standard reported. He was previously imprisoned for child molestation.

Staff members began CPR and emergency services were called in Saturday, but he could not be resuscitated.

RCMP officers from the Stonewall detachment were called in that evening.